M6600 Owners Thread

They should work right off the bat but I think you got defective sticks?

 

I will have to look it up, but if you are running 4 sticks of ram it is best to have matching sticks in 1 and 3 and 2 and 4 if I remember correctly.

 

Does anyone know why my 1600MHz Kingston HyperX DDR3 ram shows up as 1333MHz in BIOS. Also HWInfo says 665.2 MHz = 6.67 x 99.8 MHz

 

They are all the same part number, but are you saying that i should split packages (the guy from Kingston kept saying they were 'paired') across the banks? I can certainly give it a try.

Aside from these errors, everything has been running flawlessly. I have it running on just 8GB now (did i just say that?) and no issues whatsoever. Seems odd.

 

Funny you would say "safe"...

I followed your advise, and down-graded to the ISV A02 driver - only to find it's buggy! When waking up the display, my external monitor is "snowing" heavily for several seconds before it stabilizes...

So back I went for the nVidia driver, only not the Verde Beta this time, and everything is back to normal again

 

My Samsung memory runs fine at 800 MHz.

Which BIOS are you on?

 

I'm on A06. My M6600 came with 2x2GB Kingston 1600MHz. I've put these two under keyboard and put the 2x4GB HyperX on the back.

 

A06, hmm...

Did it come with the newest BIOS, or did you upgrade yourself? If the latter - did you check the RAM speed before upgrading the BIOS to A06?

 

It came with A05 and I upgraded it myself. I didn't check the speed on A05
I'm going to try what happens if I throw out the 2x2GB underneath the keyboard.

 

It will not boot at all. The BIOS reads the two slots under the access panel first for POSTing.